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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: mouth felt a little dry. But these were the only signs he made.
Indeed, when he spoke it was with something almost like an air of
relief.
"Come," he said, "now we're down to brass tacks at last on this
proposition. Mr. Detective, name your real price."
Cleggett did not answer immediately. He appeared to consider his
real price. But in reality he was thinking that there was no
longer any doubt of the origin of the explosion. Since Loge
practically acknowledged the counterfeit money, the man who had
died with this piece of it in his hand must have been one of
Loge's men. But he only said:
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